Steele v Williams

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date07 May 1853
Date07 May 1853
CourtExchequer Division
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17 cases
  • Woolwich Equitable Building Society v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 20 July 1992
    ...as he could not otherwise procure his licence. I consider that this is properly to be regarded a case of extortion colore officii. 19 Steele v. Williams (1853) 8 Ex. 625 is also, in my opinion, such a case. The plaintiff was unlawfully charged for making extracts from a parish register, an......
  • R v Commissioners of Inland Revenue ex parte Woolwich Equitable Building Society
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 May 1991
    ...Shipping Co (1860) 8 HL Cas 338 South of Scotland Electricity Board v British Oxygen Co LtdWLR[1959] 1 WLR 587 Steele v Williams ENR(1853) 8 Ex 625; 155 ER 1052 Twyford v Manchester Corporation ELR[1946] Ch 236 Tyler, re, ELR[1907] 1 KB 865 Universe Tankships Inc of Monrovia v International......
  • Woolwich Equitable Building Society v Commissioners of Inland Revenue
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 May 1991
    ...it to the defendant." 35Mr Gardiner therefore argues that this case is one which does not fall within Windeyer J.'s definition. 36In Steele v. Williams (1853) 8 Ex. 625, the defendant, a parish clerk, was entitled to charge fees for making certified copies of extracts from the parish regis......
  • Vodafone Ltd v The Office of Communications
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 19 February 2020
    ...Ltd) v Office of Communications [2010] ACD 77. 22 These cases included Dew v. Parsons (1819) 2 B & Ald 562 (“ Dew”), Steele v. Williams (1853) 8 Ex 625 (“ Steele”), Attorney General v. Wilts United Dairies Ltd (1921) 37 TLR 884 (CA), (1922) 38 TLR 781 (HL) (“ Wilts Dairies”), Atchison, Tope......
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